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Delhi Rouse Avenue Court on Thursday issued summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to appear physically on March 16 after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed a fresh complaint for allegedly evading its summonses.
The latest complaint pertains to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor not honouring summonses no. 4 to 8 sent by the federal probe agency under Section 50 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they said.
Kejriwal, 55, has called all the ED summonses “illegal”. He had informed the agency last time that he could be questioned via a videoconferencing link after March 12.
“We have not done anything wrong nor are we trying to hide,” he had said at a press conference on March 4, the day he was asked to join the probe according to the ED’s eighth summons.
The ED has filed the fresh complaint under Section 174 (non-attendance in obedience to an order from public servant) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) read with Section 63(4) of the PMLA that speaks about “a person who intentionally disobeys any direction” along with sections 190(1)(a) (receiving a complaint of facts which constitute such offence) and 200 (evidence of witnesses on oath) of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) for non-attendance in compliance of Section 50 (powers of authorities regarding summons, production of documents and to give evidence, etc.) of the PMLA.
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Published: 07 Mar 2024, 10:30 AM IST
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